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  "thread": {
    "id": 3701,
    "subject": "TAD Epiphany",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-12-21T04:42:28+00:00",
    "last": "2002-12-21T04:42:28+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0212-2507@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Veyera",
        "address": "teflon93 at cox.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-12-21T04:42:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) TAD Epiphany",
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          "text": "It was regarding the identity of the president of the alternate world---I'll\nhave to reread the entire thing to see if it really pans out, but I was\nfloored when Wolfe pulled the rug out at the end nonetheless.  You think the\nbook is about a man chasing a goddess, then it turns out to be something\nvery different entirely.\n\nI frankly should have known better, having reread \"Peace\" just before, which\nseems like such a quaint little piece of John Irving-style oddity until\neverything comes together in the reader's mind.\n\nThe closest cinematic experience I can think to reading Wolfe is the climax\nto \"Sixth Sense\" or, more aptly, to \"Memento.\"\n\nTeflon\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Adam Stephanides [mailto:adamsteph at earthlink.net]\nSent: Friday, December 20, 2002 7:17 PM\nTo: urth at urth.net\nSubject: Re: (urth) Jack Vance or There are Doors?"
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          "text": "on 12/19/02 7:45 PM, Jeff Veyera at teflon93 at cox.net wrote:\nI just finished reading There Are Doors.  I found it to be pretty mundane\nuntil experiencing the usual Wolfean epiphany late, which of course makes\nme\nwant to reread the whole thing again to figure out what really was going\non."
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          "text": "I'm curious; what was your epiphany?  I had an epiphany of a sort while\npondering TAD, but I don't know whether it was the same as yours.\n\n--Adam"
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